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Here’s how to stop Facebook’s annoying autoplay ads from eating through your data cap

14
Aug
2014

Facebook is coming up with more and more ways to annoy its mobile users, including forcing them to use its Facebook Messenger app instead of the mothership Facebook app to chat with friends. The world’s biggest social network has also annoyingly decided to automatically set its mobile app to play its autoplay video ads even if you’re on a mobile data network and not a Wi-Fi network. It goes without saying that this can be a problem for some users who have capped data plans, which is why we’re glad that iMore just posted some detailed instructions for how to stop this nuisance on your smartphone. FROM EARLIER: Facebook’s annoying plan to make everyone use its messaging app sparks a big backlash.

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